Ryan Kavuma-McQueen

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Chelsea
23 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ryan Kavuma-McQueen

8 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Geovany Quenda

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Chelsea

Cole Palmer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Chelsea make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Chelsea have 3 straight wins of it.

Match

Chelsea find a way past Burnley

Burnley made Chelsea work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danny Welbeck is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Goal number 50 for Cole Palmer

50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of João Pedro at his very best

Marked 8.30. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Chelsea.

Player ratings

Cole Palmer was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.26. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

No hiding place for Maxence Lacroix

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxence Lacroix, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cruel end for Crystal Palace as Chelsea pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Chelsea scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Market

Gabriel Słonina’s move to Sunderland falls through

The deal that would have taken Gabriel Słonina to Sunderland has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Chelsea with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

Real improvement from Teddy Sharman-Lowe at Chelsea

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Teddy Sharman-Lowe is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words at Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moisés Caicedo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces

One of their own: Levi Colwill

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Cole Palmer sends Chelsea past Crystal Palace

It finished 1‑0, and it was Cole Palmer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chelsea.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Cole Palmer at his very best

Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Chelsea.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Ryan Kavuma-McQueen

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Timothy Matthews kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

4 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Chelsea rebuffed over Alexis Mac Allister

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Liverpool have kept their man, and Chelsea go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Borussia Dortmund come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Chelsea did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Levi Colwill hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words at Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moisés Caicedo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Words exchanged at Chelsea

Danny Welbeck and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Pep Chavarría

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of João Pedro at his very best

Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Chelsea.

The dugout

Chelsea pick somebody else ahead of Chizzy Ezenwata

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Match

Chelsea and Manchester United take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief